Man killed in collision with duck

2001-11-20

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A man dashing across a lake on a customized personal watercraft at about 55 mph was killed in an apparent collision with a flying duck.

Leon Resnick, an employee of Riva Yamaha, was testing the water jet-propelled craft Thursday on a lake about 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, investigators said Monday.

A co-worker who was watching turned to pick up a radar gun to check Resnick's speed, and when he turned back Resnick was no longer aboard the craft.

Resnick, 31, of Hollywood, drowned after suffering a blow to his head, the Broward County medical examiner's office said.

``Our theory is that the bird was airborne and clocked him in the head,'' said David Bamdas, an owner of the dealership.

At the speed Resnick was traveling, the 10- to 15-pound duck ``might as well have been a cinder block,'' Bamdas said.

The bird's carcass was found nearby and there were feathers on the water bike's handlebars, said Broward County sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

Answers

trying not to laugh, but not very successfully.

So, he was 'bird-brained'?

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

giggling and feeling really guilty

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

See? I tell you guys all the time that animals are dangerous.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

If the bitty duck was a cinder block, I wonder what type of construction debris the humanoid moron was...

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

Okay, I'll be the one to say it--it was a terrorist suicide duck. Finally, they got one!

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001